Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1…

Wait, did all four mice come back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, four mice · What happens: wait, come back

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 989 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1: four mice set out to learn how to make soup, and one of them meets elves at a Maypole dance» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 mice	det
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 mice	nummod
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come back	past · do-support	all four mice						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

no, only three of the four mice came back home safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 three	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 three	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 three	advmod
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 came	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 mice	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mice	det
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 mice	nummod
8	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	obl
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	home	home	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 came	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past		three				of the four mice; home, safe property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of mouse=Initial_Location

Option 2

no, only three did, and the fourth was never seen again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 three	advmod
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seen	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seen	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fourth	det
9	fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seen	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux:pass
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 seen	advmod
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 did	conj
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 seen	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	three						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not see	past · passive		the fourth			again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

no, only three did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 three	advmod
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	three						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yes, all of them did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 did	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 all	nmod
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	all						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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